Condoleezza Rice Thought The President Could Have Been Poisoned

For 24 hours in the fall of 2001 former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reveals that she, President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Chief of Staff Andy Card did not know whether or not they had been poisoned.

It was during a trip to China for the APEC summit, very soon after 9/11 Rice wrote in her book “No Higher Honor: A Memoir in My Years in Washington” released yesterday.

Condoleezza Rice Courtesy of Creative Commons

Following September 11th, the country was on high alert and there were smallpox scares and radioactive threats in the White House reports Mail Online.

“The Vice President came on the screen and said that the White House detectors have detected botulinum toxin, and we were all– those of who exposed were going to die,” Rice said in an interview with ABC News.